Dear software packagers, startup scripts edition
This is a grump.
Dear packagers of software for Linux distributions, please note this:just because I have your software installed does not mean that I wantto run your daemon. Database systems, I am especially looking atyou. Please package software accordingly, and please make sure thatdaemons stay turned off and not running even when harried sysadminsapply package upgrades.
Since the natural way for a harried sysadmin to make a daemon not runis to turn off its init.d script (with chkconfig on Red Hat derived
廢話很有趣
大學生娃子小姐為我寫的人物專訪
袁彌明是 2005 年度香港小姐，她公然指罵鄧麗欣不配做才女、
Toy Story 3新角色Lots-o-Huggin Bear的虛擬懷舊電視廣告
正所謂做戲做全套，為了舖排今回 Toy Story 3 的新角色Lots-o-Huggin Bear，Pixar特別炮製了兩條網上短片，讓大家感受一下，當80年代Lots-o-Huggin Bear當旺時，他是如何地風光。
抵死在呢，以下兩條網片又真係做戲做全套，扮翻舊錄影帶的
勞動節隨筆
對葉問2有點失望，又是愛國情熱，激發亡國奴自卑感，來阿Q一下的中國英雄打鬼佬，沒什麼層次，以為來了香港百家爭鳴，搞一個有聲有色的中華武術。結果變了打鬼佬出氣的片子，看得是爽，但沒什麼理念。
不過有一點是
記得的小幸福
Keeping track of filesystem consistency
In light of my last entry , here is aninteresting question: when do you know that a filesystem is consistent,and how much work does it take for the system to keep track of this?
First off, there are some easy cases, namely filesystems withjournaling, strong ordering guarantees, or copy on write properties.
In general, copy on write and journaling filesystems are supposedto be consistent all of the time unless the kernel has detected thatsomething is wrong and flagged the filesystem as damaged. Instead ofthese